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Re:R7RS Considered Unifier of Previous Standards (2015) [pdf] by erikj on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @11:58AM (#15073653)
No, Racket is a separate language, though it grew out of a Scheme implementation (PLT Scheme) and still includes its predecessor.
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Re:R7RS Considered Unifier of Previous Standards (2015) [pdf] by dragonwriter on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @01:10PM (#15074374)
I thought that PLT Scheme had actually diverged from Scheme (though it included an R5RS implementation) long before they decided to change to Racket the name based on that fact.
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Re:R7RS Considered Unifier of Previous Standards (2015) [pdf] by brlewis on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @12:09PM (#15073772)
Yes, but I think it continues in the general spirit of Scheme, despite things like immutable cons cells that make it not fully backward-compatible.
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Re:R7RS Considered Unifier of Previous Standards (2015) [pdf] by erikj on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @12:15PM (#15073839)
Well, you can say that Scheme continues in the general spirit of MACLISP, yet we separate them.
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